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...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...
...Staff writer Juliet J. Chung can be reached at jchung@fas.harvard.edu...
...Levy claims Condit denied to her that he had had an affair with her daughter? She must have "misunderstood the conversation," he told Connie Chung last Thursday. The police say he bobbed and weaved through the first two interrogations? "I'm puzzled by why the police chief would say that," he replied. A flight attendant claims he wanted her to lie about their affair on a false affidavit? "I'm puzzled by people who take advantage of tragedy." Chandra's aunt says he was obsessive about secrecy? "I don't know why the aunt would say that...
...specific request" that he not discuss the details of the relationship. "Ted, he's hiding," Martin said, "and I wish he would answer the question. What was his relationship with Chandra?" D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey was subtler. "One could say that he answered every question that Connie Chung asked him; he answered every question that we asked him," Ramsey noted. "Now it's up to the others to decide whether or not that's forthcoming...
...know what passes for summer entertainment these days: big, stupid movies and demeaning "reality" shows. On a lucky night you might get Connie Chung grilling Gary Condit - a fellow of such haplessness and Waspish weasality that, in the inevitable movie version, he?ll have to be played by Wil-liam H. Macy...